Haruna, Alkasim
Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima
(2019)
Towards an Understanding of the Efferent Reading Stance of Hausa Popular Romance Novels
European Academic Research
6.12:6829-6839
readers
Haruna, Alkasim
Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima
(2019)
Understanding How Novels Shape Identities of Female Readers: A Transactional Reader-Response Approach
Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies
7.2:32-37
Adkins, Denice
Esser, Linda
Velasquez, Diane
(2006)
Relations Between Librarians and Romance Readers: A Missouri Survey
Public Libraries
45.4:54-64
Esser, Linda
Adkins, Denice
Velasquez, Diane L.
(2008)
“The Red Dot District”: Uncommon Ground in Reader Advisory Education and Professional Practice
Educational Media and Technology Yearbook
33:105–111
Al Thobaiti, Fatmah
(2019)
Afterlife of the Romance Hero: Readers’ Reproduction of Romance
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
8:
Topic
Allan, Janice M.
(1990)
The Romantic Reading Process: Towards a New Definition
Master of Arts,
University of Alberta
Allen, Amanda K.
(2016)
“Dear Miss Daly”: 1940s Fan Letters to Maureen Daly and the Age-Grading and Gendering of Seventeenth Summer
Children's Literature Association Quarterly
41.1:24-40
Allen, Amanda Kirstin
(2010)
The Girls’ Guide to Power: Romancing the Cold War
PhD,
University of Alberta
Alonso Valero, Encarna
(2012)
Corín Tellado y la novela rosa
Ogigia: Revista electrónica de estudios hispánicos
12:33-44
Anderton, Gretchen E.
(2009)
Excitement, adventure, indifference: Romance readers' perceptions of how romance reading impacts their sex lives
Doctor of Education,
Widener University
Topic
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de
Silva, Erotilde Honório
(2013)
A pedagogia social dos romances de amor dos “tempos da vovó”
Tensões Mundias
9.21:251-274
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de
Silva, Erotilde Honório
(2014)
Os Romances Sentimentais e suas Comunidades de Leitura
O público e o privado
24:119-134
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de
Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia
(2018)
A cultura emotiva das comunidades virtuais de leitura de livros de amor
RBSE Revista Brasileira de Sociologia da Emoção
17.51:91-104
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de
Viana, Thiago Mena Barreto
Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia
(2020)
Prazer, Emoção e Cotidiano na Leitura de Romances Sentimentais
Intercom–Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação43º Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação –VIRTUAL–1ºa 10/12/2020
:
Ang, Ien
(1996)
Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World
London and New York:
Routledge
Araujo, Gail
(2009)
Living to read romance: The transformative potential of interpretive practice in romance reading
MA thesis,
California State University, Fullerton
Topic
Armstrong, Jane
Byrski, Liz
Merrick, Helen
(2014)
Love works: Reading and writing romance in the twenty-first century
Australasian Journal of Popular Culture
3.3:257-261
Arnold-Forster, Agnes
(2021)
Racing Pulses: Gender, Professionalism and Health Care in Medical Romance Fiction
History Workshop Journal
91.1:157–181
Atkinson, Jacqueline M.
(1994)
The Psychiatrist, the Hero and the Romance Genre
Psychiatric Bulletin
18.2:97–98
Bagchi, Jayeeta
(2000)
Looking for Reality in Romance
Social Scientist
28.3/4:30-39
Baldys, Emily M.
(2012)
Disabled Sexuality, Incorporated: The Compulsions of Popular Romance
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
6.2:125-141
Stern, Stephanie C.
Robbins, Brianne
Black, Jessica E.
Barnes, Jennifer L.
(2019)
What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
13.4:450–461
Topic
Barra, Andrea Cipriano
(2014)
Beyond the Bodice Ripper: Innovation and Change in the Romance Novel Industry
PhD,
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Topic
Barrett, Rebecca Kaye
(2003)
Higher Love: What Women Gain from Christian Romance Novels
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
4:
Bartlett, Lexey A.
(2016)
Review of Love Between the Covers by Laurie Kahn (Blueberry Hill Productions, 2015)
Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy
3.2:
Kapell, Matthew
Becker, Suzanne
(2005)
Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex'
Popular Culture Review
16.1:147-155
Béja, Alice
(2019)
La new romance et ses nuances. Marché littéraire, sexualité imaginaire et condition féminine
Revue du Crieur
12.1:106-121
Bennett, Tony
Emmison, Michael
Frow, John
(1999)
Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
Clark, Beverly Lyon
Bernier, Karen Gennari
Henneberry-Nassau, Michelle
Jenks, Lauren Beth
Moorman, Angie J.
Rhoades, Marah Bianca
(1996)
Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves
The Centennial Review
40.2:359-384
Burnett, Ann
Beto, Rhea Reinhardt
(2000)
Reading Romance Novels: An Application of Parasocial Relationship Theory
North Dakota Journal of Speech & Theatre
13:28-39
Topic
Betz, Phyllis M.
(2009)
Lesbian Romance Novels: A History and Critical Analysis
Jefferson, North Carolina:
McFarland & Co
Beyer, Jennifer Ann Perry
(2000)
The romance novel revolution: a study of criticisms and readers
MA thesis,
Bemidji State University
Topic
Bhasin, Neeta
(2018)
Romancing the 'Illegal' Immigrant
Journal of Literature and Art Studies
8.10:1459-1474
Bigey, Magali
(2007)
Rencontres en séries. Matériel romanesque, lecteurs et lexique : une analyse du roman sentimental de type sériel (1942-2004)
Thèse doctorat,
Université de Franche-Comté
Topic
Bigey, Magali
(2010)
Discorde et règlements de comptes autour du romanesque sentimental: une analyse de blogs
Itinéraires
2010-2:103-112
Topic
Bigey, Magali
(2012)
Romances en séries, amour toujours et marketing
Le Temps des Médias
19:87-100
Rader, Kara
Hovick, Shelly R.
Bigsby, Elisabeth
(2021)
“Are You Clean?” Encouraging STI Communication in Casual Encounters through Narrative Messages in Romance Novels
Communication Studies
ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST
Stern, Stephanie C.
Robbins, Brianne
Black, Jessica E.
Barnes, Jennifer L.
(2019)
What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
13.4:450–461
Topic
Bloom, Clive
(2002)
Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan
Topic
Bold, Rudolph
(1980)
Trash in the Library
Library Journal
105.10:1138-1139
Dixon, Peter
Bortolussi, Marisa
(2009)
Readers' Knowledge of Popular Genre
Discourse Processes
46.6:541-571
Brackett, Kim Pettigrew
(2000)
Facework Strategies Among Romance Fiction Readers
The Social Science Journal
37.3:347-360
Topic
Sharma, Vishal
Bray, Kirsten E.
Kumar, Neha
Grinter, Rebecca E.
(2023)
It Takes (at least) Two: The Work to Make Romance Work
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany
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Topic
Brouillette, Sarah
(2019)
Romance Work
Theory & Event
22.2:451-464
Brown, Lisa L.
(1990)
Recovering the reader: literary theory, mass culture, and the modern romance
Masters,
University of Calgary
Topic
Brown, Sonya C.
(2011)
Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
1.2:
Bun, Jennifer C.
(2007)
The Effects of Romance Novel Readership on Relationship Beliefs, Romantic Ideals, and Relational Satisfaction
Honors thesis,
Boston College
Topic
Burnett, Ann
Beto, Rhea Reinhardt
(2000)
Reading Romance Novels: An Application of Parasocial Relationship Theory
North Dakota Journal of Speech & Theatre
13:28-39
Topic
Burnett, Hannah Eisler
(2013)
Shame game: Romance novels and feminist shame, a mad lib for collective feeling
Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory
23.1:140-144
Topic
Buttrick, Nicholas
Westgate, Erin C.
Oishi, Shigehiro
(2022)
Reading Literary Fiction Is Associated With a More Complex Worldview
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST
Armstrong, Jane
Byrski, Liz
Merrick, Helen
(2014)
Love works: Reading and writing romance in the twenty-first century
Australasian Journal of Popular Culture
3.3:257-261
Cameron, Lauren
(2020)
The Romance Publishing Industry and Its Reputation
Publishing Research Quarterly
36:1–16
Capps, Stephanie Carol
(2017)
What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs about Relationships
Master of Science,
University of Oklahoma
Topic
Choyke, Kelly L.
(2019)
The Power of Popular Romance Culture: Community, Fandom, and Sexual Politics
PhD,
Ohio University
Christian-Smith, Linda K.
(1988)
Girl's Romance Novel Reading and What to Do about It
New Advocate
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Topic
Clark, Beverly Lyon
Bernier, Karen Gennari
Henneberry-Nassau, Michelle
Jenks, Lauren Beth
Moorman, Angie J.
Rhoades, Marah Bianca
(1996)
Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves
The Centennial Review
40.2:359-384
Coles, Claire D.
Shamp, M. Johnna
(1984)
Some Sexual, Personality, and Demographic Characteristics of Women Readers of Erotic Romances
Archives of Sexual Behavior
13.3:187-209
Crane, Lynda L.
(1994)
Romance Novel Readers: in Search of Feminist Change?
Women's Studies
23.3:257-269
Topic
Crusie Smith, Jennifer
(1997)
Romancing Reality: The Power of Romance to Reinforce and Re-vision the Real
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
3.1-2:81-93
Cruz-Bibb, Rosanna
(2022)
Patriarchy, Feminism, and The Space Between: The Production and Consumption of Feminism in Romance Novels
PhD thesis,
University of Georgia
Daniels, Mary Heather
(1998)
I Don't Read It for the Sex: Romance Readers and Identity Management
Master of Science,
Oklahoma State University
Darbyshire, Peter
(2002)
The Politics of Love: Harlequin Romances and the Christian Right
Journal of Popular Culture
35.4:75-87
Davies, Ben
Lupton, Christina
Gormsen Schmidt, Johanne
(2022)
Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Oxford:
Oxford University Press
Topic
Davis, Mary Louise
(1986)
Romances and the Modern Ms.: a Study of Contemporary (Line) Romances, 1980-1984
PhD,
University of Southern California
Topic
DeBlase, Gina
(2003)
Acknowledging agency while accommodating romance: Girls negotiating meaning in literacy transactions
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy
46.8:624-635
Deller, Ruth A.
Smith, Clarissa
(2013)
Reading the BDSM romance: Reader responses to Fifty Shades
Sexualities
16.8:932–950
Reyes, Daisy Verduzco
Speer, Annika C.
Denes, Amanda
(2021)
White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey
Sexuality & Culture
ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST
Dennis, Lesley Erin
(2012)
Pornography and Rape Myths in Paranormal Romance Novels
Master of Arts,
Morehead State University
Deputter, Barbara Anne
(1992)
Les romans Harlequin, leur contenu et leurs lectrices québécoises
M. Sc,
Université de Montréal
Diekman, Amanda B.
McDonald, Mary
Gardner, Wendi L.
(2000)
Love means never having to be careful: The relationship between reading romance novels and safe sex behavior
Psychology of Women Quarterly
24.2:179-188
Topic
Dixon, Peter
Bortolussi, Marisa
(2009)
Readers' Knowledge of Popular Genre
Discourse Processes
46.6:541-571
Douglas, Ann
(1980)
Soft-Porn Culture: Punishing the Liberated Woman
The New Republic
183.9:25-29
Downey, Kristin
(2005)
Irony, Ideology, and Resistance: The Amazing Double Life of Harlequin Presents
PhD,
McMaster University
Wilkins, Kim
Driscoll, Beth
Fletcher, Lisa
(2022)
Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture
Amherst and Boston:
University of Massachusetts Press
Topic
Dubino, Jeanne
(1993)
The Cinderella Complex: Romance Fiction, Patriarchy, and Capitalism
Journal of Popular Culture
27.3:103-118
Topic
Dugger, Julie M.
(2014)
“I’m a Feminist, But…” Popular Romance in the Women’s Literature Classroom
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
4.2:
Ebert, Teresa L.
(1988)
The Romance of Patriarchy: Ideology, Subjectivity, and Postmodern Feminist Cultural Theory
Cultural Critique
10:19-57
Bennett, Tony
Emmison, Michael
Frow, John
(1999)
Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
Encanto, Georgina R.
(2008)
Savoring Romance Pinoy Style in Foreign Climes: Why Women Migrants Love Reading Tagalog Romance Novels
Review of Women's Studies
18.1:27-52
English, Jessica
(2017)
Reading the Romance: Through the Eyes of a Millenial Feminist
Masters of Science in Communication,
Eastern Washington University
Adkins, Denice
Esser, Linda
Velasquez, Diane
(2006)
Relations Between Librarians and Romance Readers: A Missouri Survey
Public Libraries
45.4:54-64
Esser, Linda
Adkins, Denice
Velasquez, Diane L.
(2008)
“The Red Dot District”: Uncommon Ground in Reader Advisory Education and Professional Practice
Educational Media and Technology Yearbook
33:105–111
Farooqui, Javaria
(2022)
Reading historical popular romance in 21st-century Pakistan
PhD thesis,
University of Tasmania
Farooqui, Javaria
(2022)
Romance in an Old Bookshop
The Bridge Magazine
1:66-69
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de
Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia
(2018)
A cultura emotiva das comunidades virtuais de leitura de livros de amor
RBSE Revista Brasileira de Sociologia da Emoção
17.51:91-104
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de
Viana, Thiago Mena Barreto
Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia
(2020)
Prazer, Emoção e Cotidiano na Leitura de Romances Sentimentais
Intercom–Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação43º Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação –VIRTUAL–1ºa 10/12/2020
:
Fekete, Maleah
(2022)
Confluent Love and the Evolution of Ideal Intimacy: Romance Reading in 1980 and 2016
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
11:
Feng, Jin
(2009)
"Addicted to Beauty": Consuming and Producing Web-based Chinese Danmei Fiction at Jinjiang
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
21.2:1-41
Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina
(2018)
"
Del cuento de hadas a la novela romántica: Una visión de la sub/literatura como gimnasio mental y laboratorio de sub/versión cultural
"
Repercusión de la lectura y otras formas de arte en nuestra vida y nuestra obra: Memorias del VII coloquio de LART, Centro Español de Manhattan, Nueva York, 26-28 de octubre de 2016
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Fleites-Lear, Marisela
(2009)
¿Victoria contra Corín Tellado?: La novela rosa revolucionaria cubana y la ficción en Mujeres
Romance Notes
49.1:91-100
Flesch, Juliet
(2004)
From Australia With Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels
Fremantle:
Curtin University Books
Topic
Flesch, Juliet Ella
(2001)
From Australia with love: Australian romance novels, 1950-2000
PhD,
University of Melbourne
Fletcher, Lisa
(2014)
Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
4.2:
Fletcher, Lisa
McAlister, Jodi
Temple, Kurt
Williams, Kathleen
(2019)
#loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them
Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture
11.1:
Wilkins, Kim
Driscoll, Beth
Fletcher, Lisa
(2022)
Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture
Amherst and Boston:
University of Massachusetts Press
Topic
Fong, Katrina
Mullin, Justin B.
Mar, Raymond A.
(2013)
What You Read Matters: The Role of Fiction Genre in Predicting Interpersonal Sensitivity
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
7.4:370-376
Topic
Fong, Katrina
Mullin, Justin B.
Mar, Raymond A.
(2015)
How Exposure to Literary Genres Relates to Attitudes Toward Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
9.3:274–285
Topic
Fordham, Helen
(2014)
‘That’s love for you’: Destabilizing divides and re-imaging subjectivities in the romantic fiction of Eloisa James
Australasian Journal of Popular Culture
3.3:273-284
Fowler, Bridget
(1979)
"True to Me Always": An Analysis of Women's Magazine Fiction
The British Journal of Sociology
30.1:91-119
Fowler, Bridget
(1991)
The Alienated Reader: Women and Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century
Hemel Hempstead:
Harvester Wheatsheaf
Topic
Frederick, Rhonda D.
(2022)
Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions
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Rutgers University Press
Frost, Laura
(2013)
The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents
New York:
Columbia University Press
Bennett, Tony
Emmison, Michael
Frow, John
(1999)
Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
Ganapathy, Subha
(2002)
Who Is Afraid of Romance Novels?: Women Readers, Patriarchy and Popular Culture
PhD thesis,
Mother Teresa Women’s University
Ganguly, Keya
(1991)
Alien(ated) Readers: Harlequin Romances and the Politics of Popular Culture
Communication
12.2:129-150
Gardner, Dora Abigail
(2019)
Defending the Bodice Ripper
MA thesis,
Eastern Kentucky University
Diekman, Amanda B.
McDonald, Mary
Gardner, Wendi L.
(2000)
Love means never having to be careful: The relationship between reading romance novels and safe sex behavior
Psychology of Women Quarterly
24.2:179-188
Topic
Gates, Sarah
(2016)
Feminism, NASCAR and the Italian billionaire's secret baby: Defending the romance genre
Voiceworks
103 (Autumn):95-101
Gautier-Villon, Claire-Elizabeth
(1994)
The Appeal of the Mass-Market Romance
M.A.,
University of Alberta
Gilbert, Pam
Taylor, Sandra
(1991)
Fashioning the Feminine: Girls, Popular Culture, and Schooling
North Sydney, Australia:
Allen & Unwin
Topic
Golubov, Nattie
(2017)
El amor en tiempos neoliberales: apuntes críticos sobre la novela rosa contemporánea
Ciudad de México:
Bonilla Artigas
Golubov, Nattie
(2017)
Reading the Romance Writer as an Author-Entrepreneur
Interférences littéraires/Literaire interferenties
21:131-160
Topic
Gómez Gray, Alana
(2018)
Lectura, paraliteratura y mujeres en España: de la novela rosa a cincuenta sombras
Arenal
25.1:215-236
Goris, An
(2011)
Matricide in Romance Scholarship? Response to Pamela Regis’ Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
2.1:
Topic
Goris, An
(2012)
Mind, Body, Love: Nora Roberts and the Evolution of Popular Romance Studies
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
3.1:
Goris, An
(2013)
Happily Ever After ... And After: Serialization and the Popular Romance Novel
Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present)
12.1:
Davies, Ben
Lupton, Christina
Gormsen Schmidt, Johanne
(2022)
Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Oxford:
Oxford University Press
Topic
Graham, Robert J.
(1989)
Media Literacy and Cultural Politics
Adult Education Quarterly
39.3:152-160
Topic
Green, Marie
(2006)
Fantasy, fiction, and feminism: a study of feminists reading romance
Master of Arts,
University of Saskatchewan
Griffin, Linda
(1999)
An Analysis of Meaning Creation through the Integration of Sociology and Literature: A Critical Ethnography of a Romance Reading Group
Doctor of Education,
University of Houston and Rice University
Sharma, Vishal
Bray, Kirsten E.
Kumar, Neha
Grinter, Rebecca E.
(2023)
It Takes (at least) Two: The Work to Make Romance Work
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany
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Topic
Grover, Mary
(2023)
Steel City Readers: Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955
Liverpool:
Liverpool University Press
Hallock, Jennifer
(2018)
History Ever After: Fabricated Historical Chronotopes in Romance Genre Fiction
2018 IASPR conference
:
Hanson, Donna Maree
(2022)
Romance fiction as a bridge to understanding changing gender roles in society
PhD in Creative Writing,
University of Canberra
Topic
Hapgood, Lynne
(2005)
Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture, 1880-1925
Manchester:
Manchester University Press
Harlan, Kimber Leigh
(2005)
Romancing the reader: constructing a discursive and social female identity through romance novels
Master of Arts,
Tarleton State University
Harman, Sarah
Jones, Bethan
(2013)
Fifty shades of ghey: Snark fandom and the figure of the anti-fan
Sexualities
16.8:951–968
Harrison, Rachel
(1980)
Women and Romantic Fiction: Subordination and Resistance
M.Litt,
University of Birmingham
Topic
Haruna, Alkasim
Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima
(2019)
Towards an Understanding of the Efferent Reading Stance of Hausa Popular Romance Novels
European Academic Research
6.12:6829-6839
Haruna, Alkasim
Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima
(2019)
Understanding How Novels Shape Identities of Female Readers: A Transactional Reader-Response Approach
Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies
7.2:32-37
Helgorsky, Françoise
(1985)
Harlequin ou la quête du grand amour
Communication et langages
63:83-98
Clark, Beverly Lyon
Bernier, Karen Gennari
Henneberry-Nassau, Michelle
Jenks, Lauren Beth
Moorman, Angie J.
Rhoades, Marah Bianca
(1996)
Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves
The Centennial Review
40.2:359-384
Hermes, Joke
(1992)
Sexuality in Lesbian Romance Fiction
Feminist Review
42.1:49-66
Hernández Guerrero, María José
(2016)
Prosumidoras de traducciones: Aproximación al fenómeno de la traducción fan de novela romántica
Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada
29.1:88-114
Topic
Herrera, Carolina M.
(2022)
Examining the relation between media engagement and developmental outcomes in adolescents and emerging adults: an exploration of engagement with and impact of young adult literature media among youth
PhD thesis,
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Holmes, Diana
(2006)
Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France: Love Stories
Oxford:
Oxford University Press
Topic
Holmes, Diana
(2010)
The Comfortable Reader: Romantic Bestsellers and Critical Disdain
French Cultural Studies
21.4:287-296
Thompson, Marcella
Koski, Patricia
Holyfield, Lori
(1997)
Romance and agency: An argument revisited
Sociological Spectrum
17.4:437-451
Rader, Kara
Hovick, Shelly R.
Bigsby, Elisabeth
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“Are You Clean?” Encouraging STI Communication in Casual Encounters through Narrative Messages in Romance Novels
Communication Studies
ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST
Huntwork, Mary M.
(1990)
Why Girls Flock to Sweet Valley High
School Library Journal
36.3:137-140
Topic
Hurley, Frances K.
(1999)
In the Words of Girls: The Reading of Adolescent Romance Fiction
Doctor of Education,
Harvard University
Topic
Hutton-Jarvis, C. A.
(1998)
The educational potential of romantic fiction
PhD,
University of Leeds
Topic
Hyejin, O
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원본 없는 판타지 : 페미니스트 시각으로 읽는 한국 현대문화사
Seoul:
Humanitas
Interracial Books for Children Bulletin,
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Romance Series for Young Readers: A Report to Educators and Parents in Concert with the National Education Association
New York:
The Council on Interracial Books for Children
Topic
Iqbal, Kundan
(2014)
The impact of romance novels on women's sexual and reproductive health
Journal of Family Planning & Reproductive Health Care
40:300–302
Topic
Izharuddin, Alicia
(2021)
Counterpublics of care: making space for mediated intimacy and romantic self-making in Malaysia
Gender, Place & Culture
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Izharuddin, Alicia
(2021)
Reading the Digital Muslim Romance
CyberOrient
15.1:146-171
Jarc, Klara
(2019)
Ljubezenski roman v Sloveniji: knjižnična izposoja, bralci in produkcija
,
Univerza v Ljubljani
Jarmakani, Amira
(2011)
Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances
American Quarterly
63.4:895-928
Jarvis, Christine
(1995)
Romancing the Curriculum: Empowerment through Popular Culture
Convergence
28.3:71-77
Topic
Jarvis, Christine
(1999)
Love Changes Everything: The Transformative Potential of Popular Romantic Fiction
Studies in the Education of Adults
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